Kaiser Wilhelm

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 162 lb

BornJanuary 26, 1877 · Wooster, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1903

Final gameAugust 26, 1921

Seasons9 (1903–1921)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1903; Boston Beaneaters 1904–1905; Brooklyn Superbas 1908–1910; Baltimore Terrapins 1914–1915; Philadelphia Phillies 1921

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified pitchers

92.4

48.7

14.3

94.1

23.5

SHO

16.8

263

15.1

109

1.7

32.8

113

65.5

2.5

243.7

56.3

ERA

4.03

10.9

WHIP

1.412

12.6

K/9

4.17

47.1

FIP

3.31

19.3

FIP-

103.4

31.1

ERA+

79.6

13.4

sWAR

0.3

11.8

of 120 qualified 1914 pitchers (min 160 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

80.7

0.3

sWAR

1.5

67.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1903	13	37	34	2	3	0	0	0	2	6	.088	.162	.088	.250	-16.3	-28.2	.140	0.7
1904	39	108	100	3	7	2	0	3	3	26	.070	.097	.090	.187	-41.1	-41.8	.095	-1.6
1905	38	104	100	3	16	2	0	4	1	21	.160	.168	.180	.348	-2.0	3.6	.167	-2.3
1908	42	122	111	4	12	0	0	3	6	15	.108	.154	.108	.262	-22.0	-15.0	.138	4.6
1909	22	60	57	1	13	1	2	4	1	13	.228	.241	.316	.557	66.0	74.9	.267	0.3
1910	15	23	19	2	6	2	0	2	2	1	.316	.381	.421	.802	135.6	136.8	.388	-0.6
1914	49	90	84	8	21	3	1	8	2	14	.250	.267	.310	.577	57.4	63.7	.272	0.3
1915	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1921	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.9	-100.0	.000	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1903	12	9	5	3	0	7	1	88	31	25	20	0	86.0	3.24	1.314	2.09	3.24	98.8	101.2	0.7
1904	39	36	14	20	0	30	3	316	118	74	73	8	288.0	3.69	1.354	2.28	3.03	112.6	73.0	-1.6
1905	34	28	3	23	0	23	0	287	122	75	76	7	242.3	4.53	1.494	2.82	3.32	110.7	66.3	-2.3
1908	42	36	16	22	0	33	6	266	69	83	99	3	332.0	1.87	1.051	2.68	2.28	99.8	122.1	4.6
1909	22	17	3	13	0	14	1	176	59	59	45	3	163.0	3.26	1.442	2.48	2.96	117.2	77.4	0.3
1910	15	5	3	7	0	0	0	88	36	18	17	3	68.3	4.74	1.551	2.24	3.29	111.5	62.2	-0.6
1914	47	27	12	17	5	11	1	263	109	81	113	10	243.7	4.03	1.412	4.17	3.31	103.4	79.6	0.3
1915	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	.000	0.00	2.49	82.3	—	0.0
1921	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	3	3	1	0	8.0	3.38	1.750	1.13	3.87	93.2	123.0	0.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

223

546

507

RBI

.1538

OBP

.1829

SLG

.1854

OPS

.3683

Pitching

G (P)

216

158

105

498th-most career L

118

336th-most career CG

SHO

1,432

SO (P)

444

BB allowed

418

ERA

3.437

393rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3356

K/9

2.79

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1905-05-25	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	4
1904-09-30	PIT @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	3
1909-07-06	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
1909-09-25	LAD @ STL Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
1909-04-22	SF @ LAD Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1904-05-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	3	1	8
1908-06-05	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	4	4	6
1908-08-04	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	0	1	6
1905-09-20	LAD @ ATL Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	6
1904-06-24	SF @ ATL Gameday	9.0	10	5	1	5

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.